Everything was perfectly peaceful out there, There were no signs of either an expected Japanese attack or one must add, of their own with drawal." We: were not allowed insld3 the barracks, but after some palaver it reed that some of th should go through their famous Sword drill for our benefit. gymnastic display it was, marvellous, but it seemed dangerous kind of stuff to be learning in these days of machine-guns and aeroplanes." But they seemed "very. themselves and nobody less than these 37th Division fellows.
Presumably the news that had been dribbling in' all day of the terrible @rubbing their troops had got from air bombing at Langfang had not yet. reached their oars, One of the officers said that the day of the Japanese had come at last, as "Heaven. would overthrow them, The correct reply could have been that Heaven is on the side of the fastest bombing. planes.
'We returned from the peace calm of the Hslyuan barracks to a city full of fresh rumours of an impending "Japanese attack" on 1 Changyimen, the west gate of the Chinese city, from where the motor Yond runs to' Lukouchiao, Soon after seven there was a short burst of fung from that direction. The Japanese, it was said, had forced their way There was ho Way of making Sure, as the gates of the Inner City were closed,
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